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Composer Richard Strauss knew all about the French horn; his father Franz was among the great horn players of the day. And when Richard Strauss was 18 years old, he wrote a horn concerto for his father. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Philip Myers perform this piece in concert with the New York Philharmonic.
Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro recently stopped by the Performance Today studio to play a few songs and chat with PT Senior Producer Suzanne Schaffer.
A look at the The Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project at the Grand Canyon Music Festival.
Fred Child and Performance Today visited the Aspen Music Festival and School in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll head to Warsaw, Poland, to hear Leonard Slatkin conduct the last major orchestral work by Johannes Brahms; his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.
American pianist Richard Goode is thoughtful and precise; with a smart and sometimes very silly sense of humor. All of which makes him perfect for music by Mozart. On this weekend's Performance Today he teams up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a concert performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27.
On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear great Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Los Angeles Philharmonic give a dazzling performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.
As a composer of symphonies, Franz Schubert might be best known for one that he didn't complete; his Unfinished Symphony. But on Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear one that he did finish: his Symphony No. 9, also known as his "great" symphony.
The Isle of the Dead is a painting of a dark, forbidding island. After viewing it, Sergei Rachmaninoff was inspired to write a symphonic poem; a musical depiction of the journey of a newly departed soul. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead in concert from Nashville. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
